Renault 7

Renault
Renault Siete (1974–1979)
7th
Production period:	1974-1983
Class :	Small car
Body versions :	limousine
Engines:	Otto engine : 1.0 liter (37 kW)
Length:	3890 mm
Width:	1525 mm
Height:	1400 mm
Wheelbase :	right 2505, left 2535 mm
Empty weight :	815 kg
successor	( Renault 9 ) Renault symbol

The Renault 7 - R7 for short - ( called Renault Siete until 1979 ) was a car model made by the French manufacturer Renault. It was produced alongside the Renault 5 from late 1974 to early 1983 and sold a total of 240,000 times.

The Siete presented in 1974 is a four-door notchback sedan in the small car class , which, up to the C-pillar, was largely identical to the five-door version of the first R5 presented in the summer of 1979. The engine range for the R7 was limited in comparison to the R5 - there was only the 1037 cc petrol engine with 37 kW (50 hp) at a top speed of 132 km / h and an average consumption of 6½ liters of premium gasoline.

Model history

Originally, the Renault 5 was to be produced in three body styles: as a three- and five-door hatchback and as a four-door notchback sedan.

Prototypes of the limousine were developed through to series production, but stopped at the last moment. Reasons for this could have been that this car would have deterred customers from buying the larger Renault 6 , but also that it would have diluted the image of the R5 as a compact small car due to the lack of the distinctive rear.

However, since equipment for production in France had already been purchased, the decision was made to start production at Renault's Spanish subsidiary FASA in Valladolid as Renault Siete for Central and Southern Europe , as there was a different buying behavior than in Central Europe .

With the subtle revision of the Renault 5 in the summer of 1978, the Renault Siete was also revised and presented as the Renault 7 in mid-1979 .

The five-door version of the R5 only went into series production as planned in the summer of 1979 as a supplement to the three-door version.

Production of the R7 ended in January 1983. It was not replaced by a notchback version based on the new R5 introduced at the end of 1984, but the Renault 9 , which was Renault's smallest notchback car between the summer of 1981 and the end of 1988, became the indirect successor. Only since 1999 has there been a notchback sedan in the small car segment with the Renault symbol .

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  Renault 7 (1979-1983)

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• Automobil Revue , catalog number 1982 (data)

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